U.S. Drones Can Now Kill Joe Schmoe Militants in Yemen

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This whole thing is turning into a f$%#king video game. This is an insane joke with no oversight. Ron was right as always. The killing of Awlaki was the greasing of the slippery slope. You know it is bad when even a CFR member is questioning the wisdom.

Wired Article

All of which leads Micah Zenko at the Council of Foreign Relations to wonder where this drone campaign is going. “By any common-sense definition, these vast targeted killings should be characterized as America’s Third War since 9/11,” he writes. “Unlike Iraq and Afghanistan — where government agencies acted according to articulated strategies, congressional hearings and press conferences provided some oversight, and timelines explicitly stated when the U.S. combat role would end—the Third War is Orwellian in its lack of cogent strategy, transparency, and end date.”